Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-10-07
THEY HAVE THE DUST"
Women Vino Count Their Wealth by
Mllli0ns-Dona Cousin0, the
Wealthy ChiIiaD, the
Money Queen.
How Sh, VIII Set New Workers an Exam.
pIe-The L;st of WouiGc Who Have
Colossal Plies of Dash.
Fila =. Heaton.

appreciates. The Gillian money queen
never does anything by hslves. She pro
poses TO take S house, furnish it as few
houses /. New York have ever been fur
nisAed gnd it is il the sir that she means
TO show New Workers how Unlimited
cash Con entertain. She can teach e les
son or two in that art if she desires She
is learned professor, and fetches New
York every time.
The Sonora Cou5ino is something more
than the richest womsn in the world. Sac
has one of the biggest fortunes held OF
either sex, possibly the largest on the
western continent. She is, unless
the last season or two has faded
her greatly, something OF g
beauty. she is G great deal of al
eccentric and net {. little OF 6 genius.
She has sstonished pretty nearly al the
capitals Q! Europe in their turn, snd she
| cannot rest on her laurels without aston
ishing New YORK TOO.
The DOra I5adora is not much short OF
forty. out she loc Ks younger. She is
rather above medium height, and dresses
| TO COX t&ll. Her figure is graceful, but
her b, :, dark eyes are
HER TAKING FEATURE.
, Her skin Is Spanish crown with dash Of
red under i, aid she has quantities q
dark hair. Sne is one oithe best dressed
women III the world in an imperial sort
q way, and With daring use OF color.
l douot if there il anywhere private
| iaWel collection to equal hers. Sac Weags
more stones at q tune than is usual
with people who haven't 80 many and
who live il North American lstitudes.
No more clever business woman *
lists. She inherited cattle, married
mines, and now, 9 widow, has gone into
about every money producing enterprise
in which Chill, the most progressive o!
the southern republics, hss engaged. Sac
is the biggest real estate Ow2er in Santi-
/ ago and Valparaiso. She hes furnished
: The capital for manufacturing enterprises.
/ She has started at potterles. she has
! built = railroad end runs Two lines If
iroa steamships. South American for
tunes are hard to estimate. but many
'lpeCpe have put hers above $500, 600
/ Money mu!tiplies fat IL ner heads Tor
| her eye is everywhere.
There WAS & young man, q son OF one
Of her cousins, l believe, whom she sent
to q New FL gland college some years
ago. South Americans, by tbs way, have
3 fzrcy for New EnS.snG schools. The
Young man YVES tsirly clever, very
good locking, not g. sll stujioas,
ned plenty Of money, arc was
GREAT FAVORITE.
SHORTY after tue beginning Of 8 term be
left school GbrUptly-SeGt abroad, So the
tale went, by 8 within of his itch rela-
tive. Some magnificent rubias that rhe
had many times coveted h&d been offered
for sale, and had gore on the market
without her knowledge. He wss to hunt
out their buyer, trace the gems, end get
them for her st sny price. The rubles
were some Of Eugenie's-it is cdd how
the ex-Empress' gems, laCes and poodle
dogs turn up cverq Where-3nd they were
in New York before he reached the other
side. would-be swell dame had paid
3 good many thousands for them, and the
scion of the southern prl0cess posted
back again, got Gn Introduction 10 the
house, f2ttered the good LADY, told heT
the predicsment he W6s in, offered her 8
choice of sll the jewelers. etores in cre1-
ton 81 any figure, and. In short, got The
rubies, delivered them in person, and
saved MS prospects in life and DJns ISa-
dora's good graces.
There are two slender, graceful daugh
tiers, somewhere il taelS teens, VINO "It
come out IN NV York, and high tim 8
are ahesd. Mother and girls speak the
purest English, as all educated CniliACs
. do. The senors is tropical creature
and, il sill tales OF her are true, sutjsct tc
cyclones.
There Is not another womsn in Americs
who mss money in her own name to com
pare with the Dona Isadora's though
RICH WOMEN ARE NOT FEW.
Hetty Green is credited with being tht
most Of capitalist OF her sex in The
United States. Her Weslth would foo
up from $50, 100000 10 100000.
suppose. She inherited Sl3,000,0
; married 81 600, 900 and has made the res
by shrewd fnanclering- Another clear
headed woman Is Miss Elizabeth Garrett
VINO must have S20,OOO,OO0 o
more and who knows how
to take care OF il. She was her father
private secretary for years and under
stands Baltimore and Ohlo stock as wei
ss anybody. Miss Garrett is not as ricl
: IS she would be if she were less charitc
lie. Sac never filings money away reck
lessly, but expends large sums with dis
elimination and good sense on educa
tionel and philsnthropic projects.
D.
Garrett, though her neighbors, the village
folk, are lees enthusiastic about her thai
they used TO be before she put up higl
> fence or Chinese wall shout that 81,
{ 600, 900 palace Of hers ct Great BsrriDg
ton. Mrs. Hopkins is not worth less thal
!. $50. 00G, 600, or s35, 100000 probably, ant
y she, too. is noted for her charity.
! Mrs. Emily II. Moir, the heir of tn
I Morgan property, pays the largest per
sonsI assessment OF any woman in Ne7
York, and Mrs. Sarah 81. Green come
: next her Mrs. John Jacob Astor has
7 tidy sum OF from $4,000 to So,
I 900, OO0.
= RICE NEW YORK WIDOWS,
estimated st from S1.o00,000 to So. coo.
+. 900, abound, and there ere some hun
- dreds of unmarried women under thirt
= who have IRON 500, 900 upwards in thei
i own name. Mrs. W. E. Dodge has III
4 vested her money well, and it amounts
= 100000, perhaps. Commodore Wax
J derbilt's widow has something nor
than double what her husband left her.
Mrs. Robert Goelet and Clarksou P1
ter's widow are not poor. Miss Ma
Calender must be worth 81 100000. TIL
Misses Leary and the Misses Furniss {
10 Fifth avenue have large incomes. Mis-
Adele Grant, Who has been starring
n with Miss Winslow for toll, has $500, 0C
II or more. Mrs. LsngLry has got aooV
It the 100000 mark. Mrs. John Mintur
q has money. Miss Grace q. Dodge has
80 ~ fFrd aalf